Abstract

Uncertainty often seems to be articulated as doubts about the interior
make-up of things. Suspecting that persons, objects, institutions and ideologies
are not what they seem, critical voices accuse them of emptiness and they
are thus laid open to new investments of meaning and value. Ethnographies
of contemporary China describe how state discourse on population quality
constructs ‘the people’ in terms of lack of quality and present this perceived
lack as a key to the coding of social differences in China
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelEmptiness and Fullness : Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China
UdgivelsesstedNew York og Oxford
ForlagBerghahn Books
Publikationsdato2017
Sider1-13
ISBN (Trykt)978-1-78533-580-8
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-1-78533-581-5
StatusUdgivet - 2017
NavnStudies In Social Analysis
Vol/bind2

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  • sociologi

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